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CPTM Series 8500
🇧🇷 Brazil ·built by Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles· from 2016· class of EMU trains
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. CPTM - Série 8500 FMO: Igormartinez99· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The CPTM Series 8500 is a class electric multiple units built by CAF from 2015 and 2019 for the São Paulo Metropolitan Trains rolling stock.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 10 years ago, in 2016.
- 4.3 MW is about 51 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 170 m long: about 38 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 2,600: 52 full city buses (~50 seats each).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2016
- in service from
- 2016
- status
- in service
- number built
- 280
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- builders
- Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles
- operators
- Companhia Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos, ViaMobilidade Linhas 8 e 9
- top speed
- 90 km/h
- power
- 4.3 MW
- gauge
- 1,600 mm Irish broad gauge
- electric system
- overhead line
- formation
- 8-car sets (MC–R1–R2–M+M–R2–R1–MC)
- length
- 170 m
- capacity
- 2,600 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q25422953, Wikipedia: CPTM Series 8500 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.